Marilyn
The Passion and the Paradox
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2012
528 pages
978-1-4088-3330-8 (ISBN)
Description
'An excellent book ... fascinating.' Telegraph
'A revelatory and intelligent tribute' Good Housekeeping
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Lois Banner's biography is revelatory.
Banner had access to material about Marilyn Monroe that no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe's psychiatric records, revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox.
No biographer before has attempted to analyse - much less realise - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has.
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'Banner gives us a powerful portrayal of a savvy self-publicist who worked tirelessly to ensure her trajectory from glamour model to screen goddess' Frances Wilson, Sunday Telegraph 'Book of the Week
'A revelatory and intelligent tribute' Good Housekeeping
______________________________
Lois Banner's biography is revelatory.
Banner had access to material about Marilyn Monroe that no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe's psychiatric records, revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox.
No biographer before has attempted to analyse - much less realise - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has.
______________________________
'Banner gives us a powerful portrayal of a savvy self-publicist who worked tirelessly to ensure her trajectory from glamour model to screen goddess' Frances Wilson, Sunday Telegraph 'Book of the Week
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
B&W art t/o; 1 16p B&W ins.; 1 8p 4/c ins.
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3330-8 (9781408833308)
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Person
Lois Banner is a founder of the field of women's history and cofounder of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the major academic event in the field. She was the first woman president of the American Studies Association, and in 2006 she won the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of ten books, including her acclaimed American Beauty and, most recently, MM--Personal, which reproduces and discusses items from Marilyn Monroe's personal archive. In addition to her books on Monroe, Banner is a major collector of her artefacts. Banner is a professor of history and gender studies at USC and lives in Southern California.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
- Part I: The Matrix, 1926-1946
- Chapter 1: Mothers, 1926-1933
- Chapter 2: Trauma, 1933-1938
- Chapter 3: Transcendence: Ana and Jim, 1938-1944
- Chapter 4: Photographers and Producers, 1944-1946
- Part II: Hollywood, 1946-1955
- Chapter 5: Storming the Citadel, 1946-1951
- Chapter 6: Marilyn Ascending, 1951-1954
- Chapter 7: Breakaway, 1954-1955
- Part III: Entr'acte: A Woman for All Seasons
- Chapter 8: The Meaning of Marilyn
- Part IV: New York, 1955-1960
- Chapter 9: New York, 1955-1956
- Chapter 10: Arthur, 1956-1959
- Chapter 11: The Misfits, 1959-1960
- Part V: Return to Hollywood, 1961-1962
- Chapter 12: Denouement, 1961-1962
- Chapter 13: Defiance and Death
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Manuscript Collections Consulted and List of Abbreviations
- List of Interviewees
- Plate Section
- Notes
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- eCopyright
